Contemporary Design (Architecture)
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"Archivi del Moderno e del Contemporaneo" è un nuovo progetto di ricerca avviato da A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna con l’intento di rileggere l’opera di artisti e architetti del XX e XXI secolo attraverso lo studio sistematico degli... more
Work on this project started in 1981-82 following designs prepared by István Szabó. Structurally this church was completed, but it would seem never to be occupiable, at least for 30 years. Hence the idea that this church was unfinishable.... more
One of the most intensely debated topics in today’s design world is that of how to define itself, what are its boundaries and where do they end? Such a broad question comes with as equally broad opinions and views from designers,... more
“The Brazilian Graphic Design: Its History, Challenges and Scenes”, will be full of imagery of Brazil as well as the reality and challenges for contemporary graphic designers (2019).
Pubblicazione realizzata a supporto del concorso internazionale “Edifici mondo: concorso per il recupero del centro antico di Salerno” (Comune di Salerno, Salerno 1997), a cura di Andrea Morpurgo, Bernardo Secchi, Paola Viganò, Laura... more
Oldenburg’s properties of third places were established almost three decades ago. In order to understand if these properties still hold and if and how ICTs changed the concept of third places, we looked at affordances and practices in... more
A dolgozat egy 6 féléves kutatás első fázisa, melyben meghatározom azt, hogy mi tekinthető kortárs építészetnek, illetve (amennyire ezt meg lehet határozni), mikortól lehet kortárs építészetről beszélni. Ahogy a modern korszak/irányzat... more
Addressing the voluminous and multifarious expressions of architecture and spirituality is a daunting task. Consequently, three focused perspectives inform our discussion. The first con siders the "objecthood" of... more
Il volume raccoglie in maniera organica e sistematica quindici anni di lavoro progettuale e di elaborazioni critiche. Semplice lineare complesso è il modo in cui la configurazione architettonica si propone nello spazio. Attraverso la... more
In the early 1980s the Australian city of Melbourne asserted its cultural authority with a redesigned city square. To complete the new urban architecture, Ron Robertson-Swann created Vault. Soon exiled to the urban periphery,... more
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In the framework of Cultura 2000 – Education and Culture, European Union Programme, a first project named “Terra Incognita – Conservation of European Earthen Architecture” was approved and implemented in 2006-2007. The project provided a... more
This work was originally written as my doctoral dissertation in Budapest, Hungary. It was supervised by Zorán Vukoszávlyev, and was defended successfully at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Budapest in 2014. My... more
Architectural review of 'Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined' at the Royal Academy, London, 2014
This paper aims to analyse the architectural elements and spatial concept of Bruder Klaus Fieldchapel, which was defined by Peter Zumthor as “a worship space and not a consecrated church in a clerical mind”, in order to determine its... more
Purpose Ingels, who was influenced by Darwin, designs new mutants by developing prototypes. This study, it is aimed to scrutinize the public space alternatives proposed for the 21st-century city through the comparative analysis of the... more
The book "Crafts in Interior Architecture: India, 1990 onwards” by Rishav Jain critically examines the manifestation of crafts in the domain of interior architecture in India today. It attempts to understand the position of craft in... more
A.Brief Review of state of art of design and architecture (20 th century upto present).
Inducted into Library of Parliament, Canada 2016. The book is a convergence of calligraphy, poetry, and architecture. It has been reviewed in 2020 by Haiku Canada (see review by Sandra Stephenson in Book Reviews). YouTube carries it's... more
Aproximación a la 'High Tech Architecture' tomando como punto de inflexión el Centro Beaubourg (Pompidou) de 1971-77, donde cristalizan muchas facetas tecnológicas tanto pragmáticas como utópicas tras la WWII, abriendo nuevas... more
contemporary urban inserts in an historically dominant environment. How does one express the idea of response to the surrounding? Should this be shown in form of continuity in scale, material, details or colour, visual weight of mass, or... more
This book analyze how materials, structural and construction systems were introduced in Mexico City at the first half of the Twenty Century. Through the analysis of six high rise buildings built in Mexico City in this period: the... more
Contemporary Architecture in Khartoum have been affected by modernization and globalization, which lead to an architecture that has little attention to the existing local and regional architecture. Globalized architecture resulted in... more
This article describes animal architecture as a multi-disciplinary field of bionic science and organic architecture which is recently popularized as one of the architectural design methods. By reviewing design procedures this study aims... more